Thank you to Jimbo's...Naturally! for sponsoring our teacher training academies and to the Eleanor and Jerry Navarra family and Jerome's Furniture for providing funding for the beautiful new refrigerators in our teaching kitchen!

Cooking for Salud! students measure out the amount of sugar in one serving of a soft drink

Where are they Now?

Kitchenistas Edition

Congratulations to Kitchenistas Patty Corona-Morales, Victoria Nieblas, and Rosa Hernandez on their new jobs at the KOA restaurant! Patty, Vicki, and Rosa will be putting their Cooking for Salud! skills to work prepping food at the Chula Vista KOA. In addition, Patty, Kitchenista Volunteer Coordinator, is the new Parent Coordinator at Sweetwater Union High School, where, among other duites, she teaches cooking and nutrition classes for parents.

Featured Speaker:Dr. Gordon Saxe M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. (UCSD Center for Integrative Medicine) is a national leader in the field of Integrative Medicine and an expert in the medical applications of plant-based diets and body-mind stress reduction techniques. Dr. Saxe will discuss the inherent connection between diet and disease treatment and prevention.

Featured Restaurant:Cowboy Star Restaurant and Butcher Shop is an East Village staple that recaptures the simple and pure tastes found in locally grown, natural and organic ingredients. Executive Chef Victor Jimenez and Chef de Cuisine Christopher Osborne's menu will include garden-inspired dishes that showcase healthy whole grains, produce, and proteins.

We were thrilled by the success of our first-ever Valentines' Day Couples Cooking Class. Demand was so high that we added an extra session! Couples harvested their own flower arrangements, cooked with
Chef Christina Ng and enjoyed a private picnic together in the garden.

Chef Educator Kati Christensen gave birth to a beautiful baby boy on Tuesday, February 17th! We'd like to extend a huge congratulations to Kati and Jesse and welcome Henry Robert Christensen to the Olivewood family!

3rd graders from National School District will come back to Olivewood! Students to study the three sisters companion planting technique - a Native American tradition that combines corn, beans, and squash together in the same garden bed! Students will perform folktale reader's theater, plant the three sisters together, and cook a tasty Three Sisters Posole.

Cooking for Salud! will conclude with a large graduation celebration for the Kitchenistas.

Additional events will include field trips for Head Start preschoolers, the Creating and Sustaining Your School Garden Teacher Training sponsored by Jimbo's...Naturally!, our first Cultivating Conversation dinner, and an Open House.

This all-day workshop for will help educator teams to create or enhance their
schoolgarden programs. Meet with other teachers, parents, and administrators for guided discussions, presentations, and hands-on examples. Topics include: planning
and designing a
schoolgarden, basic gardening skills, curricular connections,
and outdoor classroom management.